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Teaching Children Hydroponics in ANY Educational Environment – Epi-3349

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Today Glenna Tabor joins us to discuss how we can educate and empower children to grow their own food using hydroponics in any educational environment.  Glenna Tabor is not just an educator but also a passionate hydroponic farmer. With a rich background as a classroom teacher, specialist, and trainer, she has seamlessly blended her knowledge of education with hydroponics, emphasizing its real-world connection to math and science. Recognizing the potential of hydroponics as a living curriculum, Glenna initiated Hydro4Food.Com, a platform dedicated to introducing hydroponics in the classroom through videos and curriculum. The essence of hydroponics in education is multifaceted. … Continue reading →

Raising Children into Strong Independent Adults – Epi-3274

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Brian Perry and Luke Grim are the creators of these16things.com. Brian is a long-time listener of TSP and got the original idea when he heard Jack’s podcast titled, “15 Things to Teach Kids that Government Schools Never Will“. Brian is a Christian, husband, has 7 kids, homeschools his kids (his wife does all the work), and owns his own painting and pressure washing business. He used to be the typical adult male – out of shape, ate a poor diet and worried more about watching sports than taking care of himself. Since finding Jack’s show, he has changed his diet, … Continue reading →

15 Things to Teach Kids that Government Schools Never Will – Epi-3082

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Today we discuss 15 things we should be teaching our children that government run schools never will.  Most adults by the way likely need to learn at least half of them.  We are not attacking the school system today though, rather pointing out how valuable this knowledge is and why the state doesn’t want a population to have them. In fact the entire point of this episode is to make you think about what to teach your kids so they can have in the words of every parent ever, “have more than I did when I was growing up” or … Continue reading →

Episode-2690- Judy Arnall on Unschooling

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Judy Arnall, BA, CCFE, DTM is a certified brain and child development specialist and master of non-punitive parenting and education practices. She is the bestselling author of 5 print books, including Unschooling To University, and is current President of Unschooling Canada Association. Her five children self-directed their education and 3 are currently university graduates. She joins us today to discuss homeschooling as an unschooler and answers these and other questions… What is self-directed education/unschooling Can kids learn without school and homeschool What about university or college Isn’t unschooling giving kids too much control What if they play video games all … Continue reading →

Episode-2678 – The Ultimate Conversation on Children and Technology

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Matt Kleopfer joins us today to discuss the impact of technology on children and families. Matt grew up as a stereotypical midwest farm kid, but like most decided to ditch the farm for a college indoctrination and pursued music and education. After 2 college degrees, Matt grabbed his helmet and shovel and headed for the trenches of public government education in a small rural Kansas town. After spending 5 years in the government school scene, Matt noticed some very alarming patterns. By this time he and his wife had four kids and were looking for an alternative. It all changed … Continue reading →

Episode-2551- Morgan Rogue on Prepping with Kids

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Morgan Rogue is a wife and mom of two daughters (3 year old and 4 month old) living in TX. She has been prepping for the past 10 years. She is on a mission to encourage the ordinary person to prep, as well as continue to gain knowledge from the prepping community. Morgan and I get together today to surviving anything with children. According to Morgan kids are tough, especially younger kids who might not have a total grasp on what’s going on and can get scared easily. Her family has done several mock bug out drills with the kids … Continue reading →

Episode-2425- The Lost Art of Developing Life Skills

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My wife had some morning talk crap on earlier this week.  Can’t remember what it was but it was two gals sucking down wine in the morning and cackling about stuff.  Anyway they started talking about the concept of “snow plow parenting”.  Okay I will listen, may be if I had some of that wine…….. Well it was a decent segment, they were talking about how young adults 18-27 were no longer developing life skills.  One of the gals talking was a late menial (37) the other a mid GenXr (46 like me).  What they were saying was that snow … Continue reading →

Episode-2177- Ben Fetterman on Odyssey of the Mind

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Ben Fetterman, better known as Southpaw Ben from the history segment, is a sophomore Plant Science student at Penn State University. He competed in Odyssey of the Mind for 4 years in high school, including one trip to the World Finals competition and 3 times to the Pennsylvania state finals . Today Ben joins us to discuss this project but speaks only on behalf of his own experiences and not on behalf of the Odyssey of the Mind organization in any way. So what is Odyssey of the Mind and How Does it Work? Students develop team-building skills by working … Continue reading →

Episode-920- Building Self Reliance in Our Children

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After I answered a question by John from West Virginia on Friday’s show I have received a ton of email asking me to do a full show devoted to teaching our children self sufficiency and self reliance. I am going to do that show today but I want to point something out.  I am not nor do I claim to be a parenting expert.  I simply have had the honor of serving as a step father to a great kid who now has grown into a fine young man.  I think Dorothy and I did a great job, much of … Continue reading →